Where does “khà-sàng” come from?
khà-sàng (Min Nan) comes from Japanese お母さん, from Japanese 母, from Old Japanese はは.
khà-sàng (Min Nan): mother
Ancestry of “khà-sàng”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | お母さん | mother; one's mother |
| 2 | Japanese | 母 | mother; a woman who breastfeeds and raises a... |
| 3 | Old Japanese | はは | — |